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Prime Video What we think Three Pines will be about Here is the official synopsis for the series: The series follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (Alfred Molina) of the Sûreté du Québec, a man who sees things that others do not: the light between the cracks, the mythic in the mundane, and the evil in the seemingly ordinary. As he investigates a spate of murders in Three Pines, a seemingly idyllic village, he discovers long-buried secrets and faces a few of his own ghosts....

Tobe Hooper Kicked Off The Texas Chain Saw Massacre With A Dump Truck Of Dead Animals Bryanston Distributing Company By J. Gabriel Ware/Oct. 17, 2022 10:00 am EST In the 1974 groundbreaking horror film “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), her wheelchair-bound brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and friends (played by Allen Danziger, Terri McMinn, and William Vail) visit the fictional town of Newt, Texas to check the grave of the Hardesty’s grandfather amid reports of body snacthing happening in the area....

Check out the V/H/S/99 trailer For the first time in the series’ history, no directors from the previous installments will be returning. However, that doesn’t mean this entry is lacking in notable names. Johannes Roberts, Flying Lotus, Maggie Levin, Joseph and Vanessa Winter, and Tyler McIntyre all contributed to this new eclectic set of short films, and if the trailer is anything to go by, they’ll have a sinisterly nostalgic look to them....

We’re Giving Away 10 Digital Codes For Top: Gun Maverick – Here’s How You Can Win Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Aug. 23, 2022 11:40 am EST There’s no denying it: “Top Gun: Maverick” is the biggest movie of 2022 by just about every measure. It is now one of the highest-grossing movies of all time (not just of the year), is Tom Cruise’s biggest movie ever, and has been met with widespread critical acclaim....

Why Bill Murray Dropped Out Of Wes Anderson’s Next Movie Buena Vista Pictures By Lex Briscuso/July 25, 2022 12:05 pm EST Bill Murray will not be joining the ensemble cast of longtime collaborator Wes Anderson’s next film, “Asteroid City,” despite originally being part of the project. So what happened for Murray to drop out of Anderson’s latest? Variety confirmed that Murray had dropped out of the cast for “Asteroid City” because of COVID-19....

16 Underrated Samurai Movies You Need To Watch Toho Company By Leo Noboru Lima/Aug. 26, 2022 2:14 pm EST Samurai films — also sometimes called sword fight films and referred to by the Japanese-language term “chanbara” — have been one of the pillars of Japan’s film production for pretty much the entirety of its history. The image of the samurai has attracted the fascination of filmmakers working in the jidaigeki (period film) genre for decades: The ghost incarnate of a shared national past, at once refined nobleman and ruthless slayer, carrying with him bygone shadows of both honor and inequality, duty and despotism, glory and gore....

1917 And The Good Nurse Screenwriter’s Favorite Trick Is To Cut Dialogue [Exclusive] Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 21, 2022 12:34 pm EST Poll any group of aspiring filmmakers about what the most important part of a script is and chances are one of the most common responses you’ll get will have something to do with the dialogue. There are countless examples of successful writer/directors who’ve clearly made this aspect of storytelling into a priority, turning the words that their characters say and how the actors deliver them into an integral feature of their personal trademark....

Before House Of The Dragon And During Doctor Who, Matt Smith Played One Of His Most Fascinating Characters HBO By Witney Seibold/Sept. 13, 2022 1:00 pm EST In the HBO series “House of the Dragon, actor Matt Smith plays Prince Daemon Targaryen, a character who will — should “Dragon” last long enough — no doubt commit multiple acts of murder, perhaps a few acts of torture, certainly several acts of incest, and, just for good measure, two separate acts of enthused cannibalism....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer The trailer begins with a series of moving images that show us that T’Challa has passed away. Wakanda mourns him with a beautiful tribute before there’s a dark turn. It appears Wakanda is about to go to war with Namor the Sub-Mariner, played by Tenoch Huerta. Plus, we get a first glimpse at Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, and just a peek at how she’ll become Ironheart....

Chucky Season 2 Loudly, Proudly Declares That It’s No Fan Of Children USA and Syfy By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 7, 2022 9:32 am EST It’s been about a year since we last caught up with our favorite sociopathic serial killer trapped in the body of a doll, but “Chucky” is back for season 2 and Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) is wasting no time continuing to ruin the lives of Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), his boyfriend Devon Evans (Björgvin Arnarson), their friend Lexy Cross (Alyvia Alyn Lind), and anyone else who gets in his way....

Colin Farrell Had A Tough Time With The Animals Of The Banshees Of Inisherin Searchlight Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 27, 2022 11:19 am EST “The Banshees of Inisherin” marks a long-awaited reunion between writer/director Martin McDonagh and his “In Bruges” stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. As with most of McDonagh’s previous directorial efforts, it’s a film that straddles the line between bleak comedy and tragedy. In its trailer alone, Gleeson’s character, Colm, abruptly ends his friendship with his closest companion, Pádraic (Farrell)....

David Ayer Broke Brad Pitt Down To Prepare Him For Fury Sony Pictures Releasing By Witney Seibold/Aug. 9, 2022 7:58 pm EST Early in David Ayer’s 2014 war film “Fury,” the dead body of an American soldier is seen face-down on a muddy battlefield, the poor soul obliterated by a vicious battle that had taken place earlier in the day. One can make out the vague shape of a human being, but it’s largely just blood and pulp at this point....

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Footage Reaction: Rolling The Dice [Comic-Con] Paramount Pictures By Rafael Motamayor AND Jacob Hall/July 21, 2022 4:39 pm EST “Dungeons & Dragons” has been around for almost 50 years, and in those decades we’ve seen fantasy trends come and go in Hollywood, with the 1980s seeing a wave of fantasy films released to various levels of success, “Lord of the Rings” kind-of-but-not-really reviving that trend in the ’00s, and then new iterations popping up again in the post-“Game of Thrones” world....

It needs to be scarier DreamWorks Animation Blood is not typically seen in mainstream American animated films, thanks to most studios’ use of the medium for children’s fare. Films like “The Last Wish” may feature monsters, fights, and even death (villains are often hoisted by their own petards), but one would be hard-pressed to find a cartoon character that bleeds. For Joel Crawford, blood was the ultimate symbol of mortality, falling back on the adage taught to audiences by the font of wisdom that is John McTiernan’s 1987 film “Predator,” which stated that if something bleeds then it can be killed....

Even A Performance From Peter O’Toole Couldn’t Save Robin Williams’ Club Paradise Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 16, 2022 3:37 pm EST There was every reason to expect “Club Paradise” would be the comedy smash of Summer 1986. Harold Ramis was two-for-two as a director thanks to “Caddyshack” and “National Lampon’s Vacation,” and scorching hot off the blockbuster success of “Ghostbusters.” Ramis had reunited with his “National Lampoon’s Animal House” collaborator Chris Miller to hammer out the story, and hooked up once again with his “Caddyshack” co-writer Brian Doyle-Murray for the screenplay....

Fall trailer HAHAHAHA. NO. NO, THANK YOU. HARD PASS. 2 SPOOKY 4 ME. (Yes, I will 100% be seeing this.) For those that were able to catch “The Black Phone” in theaters, there’s a good chance you saw a teaser trailer for “Fall,” which was just a CGI scroll up of the radio tower. Admittedly, the CGI didn’t look super believable, and I sat in my AMC lounge chair thinking, “Hmm, I wish that didn’t look so clunky....

Fallout: Atomic Bonds Turns Post-Apocalyptic Game Into A Wasteland Wonder Fantasy Flight Games By Matthew Monagle/July 28, 2022 10:17 am EST (Welcome to Cardboard Cinema, an ongoing series where we look at board games inspired by or connected to our favorite media. In this edition, we look at the tabletop board game set in post-apocalyptic future-world of the “Fallout” franchise.) In 2017, I preordered a copy of “Fallout” by Fantasy Flight Games....

‘What kind of sick mind could make a film like this?’ United Film Distribution Company While the meaning behind “Night of the Living Dead” might be implicit, the social messages in “Dawn of the Dead” are obvious and heavy-handed. The film opens in a chaotic Philadelphia TV news studio (WGON, get it?), the nerve center of public information, as zombies take over the country. Meanwhile, during a mandatory evacuation, a S....

The Socialites (Society) Wild Street Pictures Sometimes it can seem like America’s ultra-rich citizens, the one-percenters, are a completely different species from the rest of us. But what if they actually were? Wealth, privilege, and class disparity are the evils at the heart of Brian Yuzna’s 1989 film “Society.” Bill (Billy Warlock), a young man from a wealthy family begins to suspect that his parents (and the rest of their hoity-toity friends) are a part of something darkly twisted....

Is that a Buy-n-Large pin on your uniform?! Universal Pictures “WALL-E” is a vivid, imaginative film filled with social criticism, some of which might fly over the heads of the wee ones in the audience. WALL-E the robot showcases the doldrums of a soul-crushing 9-to-5 and inadvertently incites a robo-rebellion aboard the starship Axiom, all with minimal vocabulary. In trying to get the Pixar team in the headspace to depict an endearing character who doesn’t say much but gets his emotions across nonetheless, Stanton had some predictable works in mind, like Albert Lamorisse’s dialogue-minimal short film “The Red Balloon....